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Assuming that you start with 2.00 g of sodium benzoate and 5 mL of 3 M HCl, how many molar equivalents of HCl are you using? Use two decimal places.
mass of sodium benzoate = 2.00 g
molar mass of sodium benzoate= 144.11 g/mol
moles = mass / molar mass
moles of sodium benzoate (C6H5COONa) = 2 / 144.11
= 0.0139
moles of HCl = molarity x volume / 1000
= 3 x 5 / 1000
= 0.015
C6H5COONa + HCl ----------------------> C6H5COOH + NaCl
1 mol 1 mol
0.0139 mol 0.015 mol
here limiting reagent is C6H5COONa
so 0.0139 mol of HCl is used.
molar equivalents of HCl = 0.01 (two decimal places)